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UNTTED STATES PATENT ornion.

DANIEL S. JAMES, OF NEW MARKET, VIRGINIA.

INVALID-CHAIR.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 14,872, dated May 13, 1856.

To aZZ 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL S. JAMES, of New Market, in the county ofShenandoah and State of Virginia, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Invalid-Chairs; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and eXact description of the constructionand operation of the same, refer.

ence being had to the annexed drawing, forming part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the chair whenadapted to rocking. Fig. 2 is a side elevation when in position forreclining. Fig. 3 is a side elevation when converted into a bed.

Similar characters of reference in the several figures denote the samepart of the chair.

The nat-ure of my invention consists in combining with a chair looselyjointed, a curved brace running from the joints of the rockers and frontof the chair, and constituting a secondary back piece for giving therequisite stiifness to the chair when in position for rocking, and alsoacting as a brace when the chair is converted into a couch; the detailsof construction and operation being as follows.

In the drawing a is the side of the chair; Z), the back piece; c, therocker, and Z the front piece; these several parts being jointed at e ee 6 so as to be capable of moving freely. Jointed with the rockers andthe front of the chair ate, is the curved brace or secondary back piecef, having the position (when the chair is designed as a rocker) shown inFig. l; the head z' resting upon the cross piece g of the back. In thisposition the piece f, effectually braces the several part-s of the chairand renders the joints as stiff as if they were rigid, and the chairincapable of adaptation to other'purposes.

The arms ZL extend backward to the rockers, as shown in Fig. l, and whenhead z' of brace f, is withdrawn from bar g, and the back permitted tofall, these arm eX- tensions will reach the ground and become the rearsupports of a reclining chair. The front supports are provided byswinging out the piece Z. Further movement of the joints is prevented bybraces m on each side. The ends of arm extensions and of piece Z may beprovided with rollers.

By removing braces m and allowing the back to fall and the front torise; and turning out the head piece a, a couch is formed, supported bypieces Z and n, and stiffened by brace f in contact with bar p ruimingthrough joint e, its head piece z' pressing against bar Q of chair back.

lWhat I claim as new and of my own invention and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

The construction of invalid chairs of a loosely jointed frame incombination with a brace f operating substantially as and for thepurposes specified.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name before twosubscribing witnesses.

DANIEL S. JAMES. Vitnesses:

GEO. PATTEN, A. B. SMITH.

